Two common medications that are categorized as blood thinners and used to prevent blood clots are anticoagulants and antiplatelets. Both are essential in treating conditions caused by blood clots ...

Platelets play an important role in atherothrombotic disease. The currently available antiplatelet drugs target key steps of platelet activation including thromboxane A 2 synthesis, ADP-mediated ...

Late-breaking data showed almost all patients achieved normal blood clotting and vessel repair after bentracimab infusion.

While routine treatment with aspirin plus a second anti-clotting drug, known as dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), can prevent blood clots, these drugs may increase risk for bleeding, especially ...

Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol. 2012;5(3):319-336. Finally, a recent study suggested that although prasugrel significantly reduces thrombotic events in patients with ACS undergoing PCI because of its ...

Patients who have a stent implanted to open a blocked coronary artery face dual risks of developing blood clots and of having ...